Why Mid-Season Upgrades Matter More in Simulations Than Reality
Mid-season upgrades are one of the easiest storylines in F1 to understand and one of the hardest to model correctly. Fans see a new floor, a new front wing, or a revised sidepod concept and ask a practical question: *how many points is that worth?* A good simulator doesn’t pretend to know the answer—it turns that uncertainty into ranges, and it forces you to be explicit about timing, conversion, and volatility. If you want to understand why the same upgrade can look “huge” in a model but “normal” on track, the quickest route is to model the timing itself and watch how the points distribution shifts in the Season Simulator.
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